Debian Installer, Manual Partitioning is a Joke

2019-09-29 Thread Wayne Sallee
Debian really needs to work on the manual partitioning part of the installation. It's absolutely pathetic. Wayne Sallee wa...@waynesallee.com http://www.WayneSallee.com

Re: Debian Installer, Manual Partitioning is a Joke

2019-09-29 Thread Nicolas DOBIGEON
Your mail is a joke, I think debian partitionning tool is the best i tried. It's your taste but don't tell it's a joke. Le 29/09/2019 à 16:56, Wayne Sallee a écrit : Debian really needs to work on the manual partitioning part of the installation. It's absolutely pathetic. Wayne Sallee wa...@w

Re: Debian Installer, Manual Partitioning is a Joke

2019-09-29 Thread Wayne Sallee
What partitioning tool are you talking about? Wayne Sallee wa...@waynesallee.com http://www.WayneSallee.com  Original Message  *Subject: *  Re: Debian Installer, Manual Partitioning is a Joke *From: * Nic

Re: Debian Installer, Manual Partitioning is a Joke

2019-09-29 Thread Linux-Fan
Wayne Sallee writes: What partitioning tool are you talking about? Wayne Sallee mailto:wa...@waynesallee.com>wa...@waynesallee.com http://www.WayneSallee.com>http://www.WayneSallee.com When I think of the debian partitioning tool, I think of this one: https://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/201

Re: Debian Installer, Manual Partitioning is a Joke

2019-09-29 Thread Charles Curley
On Sun, 29 Sep 2019 10:56:54 -0400 Wayne Sallee wrote: > Debian really needs to work on the manual partitioning part of the > installation. > > It's absolutely pathetic. Some more detail would be useful. For example,how would you do it better? Code submissions would be welcome. -- Does anybo

Re: Debian Installer, Manual Partitioning is a Joke

2019-09-29 Thread Dan Ritter
Wayne Sallee wrote: > Debian really needs to work on the manual partitioning part of the > installation. > > It's absolutely pathetic. Do you have specific suggestions for improvement? -dsr-

bluetooth and Debian 10

2019-09-29 Thread Bruce Byfield
Yesterday, I finally got around to upgrading from Debian 9 to 10. After I finished, my bluetooth speaker stopped working reliably. It does always connect, and, when it does, it may or may not display in pavucontrol and doesn't appear in phonon at all. When I change its settings on the configuration

Re: bluetooth and Debian 10

2019-09-29 Thread deloptes
Bruce Byfield wrote: > Can anyone suggest a solution? I'm sure I'm missing something obvious, > but I'm at a loss to suggest what. Any suggestions? it was asked recently already. reported that removing the pairing and ~/.pulse or ~/.config/pulse after which reboot and repair worked. Try first

Re: Rescuing hard disks

2019-09-29 Thread Mark Fletcher
On Fri, Sep 27, 2019 at 01:41:58PM +0100, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > On Mon, Sep 23, 2019 at 03:11:07PM +0500, Alexander V. Makartsev wrote: > > If I understood this right, you have two disks with data and they were > > previously configured as RAID1 volume. > > What make\model RAID-controller do yo

Hard disks auto-spinning-down

2019-09-29 Thread Mark Fletcher
Since a fresh install of buster, an external USB3 hard disk cage from Terramaster that I own is not automatically spinning down the disks in it when they go unused for a time. I used a previous generation of the cage with Stretch previously, it spun down the disks when they were not in use (act

Re: Differences between apt-listchanges/unattended-upgrades/apticron/cron-apt

2019-09-29 Thread l0f4r0
Hi, Thank you very much Dan & Jonas and sorry for the delay... I think it's pretty clearer now for me. So in case I want to A) be notified should there be any new upgrade available B) have my security packages be ugraded automatically and be notified C) receive an email with the list of changes 

Re: Debian Installer, Manual Partitioning is a Joke

2019-09-29 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Sun, 29 Sep, 2019 at 10:56:54 -0400, Wayne Sallee wrote: > Debian really needs to work on the manual partitioning part of the > installation. > > It's absolutely pathetic. > > Wayne Sallee > wa...@waynesallee.com > http://www.WayneSallee.com > Thank you for your contribution. I look forward

RStudio in Buster

2019-09-29 Thread Mark Fletcher
Hello The RStudio application, a popular IDE-like tool for programming in R, is not to my knowledge packaged in the mainstream Debian repositories. The makers of RStudio, however, provide a package which can be downloaded from their website for installation in Debian. The most recent package t

Re: Authentication for telnet.

2019-09-29 Thread peter
From: Reco Date: Sat, 28 Sep 2019 19:23:45 +0300 > I have to ask - what are you trying to achieve? An interactive shell session with minimal overhead. (Or maximal efficiency.) The telnet client in the Oberon subsystem is noticeably faster than competitors. > ... your request seems to be awful

Re: Authentication for telnet.

2019-09-29 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Sun, Sep 29, 2019 at 02:36:02PM -0700, pe...@easthope.ca wrote: > From: Reco > > I have to ask - what are you trying to achieve? > > An interactive shell session with minimal overhead. (Or maximal > efficiency.) The telnet client in the Oberon subsystem is noticeably > faster than c

Re: Authentication for telnet.

2019-09-29 Thread Andy Smith
On Sun, Sep 29, 2019 at 10:51:22PM +, Andy Smith wrote: > On Sun, Sep 29, 2019 at 02:36:02PM -0700, pe...@easthope.ca wrote: > > An interactive shell session with minimal overhead. (Or maximal > > efficiency.) > I am old enough to remember how we used to remotely manage machines > before SSH

Debian 10 freezes upon shutdown, reboot and logout

2019-09-29 Thread Beco
Hi, I'm currently having issues with a LENOVO ideapad320. Using Stretch was smooth. But this weekend I've updated to Buster and I'm having trouble to shutdown the system. Rebooting also freezes. Watchdog says the CPU number #something is 22 seconds froze. I usually don't use "logout" since it i

Re: PCmanFM does not recognize android device

2019-09-29 Thread riveravaldez
On 9/24/19, mb wrote: > Hi! > Since i upgraded my system to buster (64Bit + lxde) PCmanFM does not > recognize my android cell-phone when connected via usb cable. > The error message is: > "The name :1.53 was not provided by any .service files" > i just realized the error message occures right aft

Re: Authentication for telnet.

2019-09-29 Thread peter
From: Andy Smith Date: Sun, 29 Sep 2019 22:51:22 + > Is it a case that the hosts you are dealing with ... From: pe...@easthope.ca Date: Sat, 28 Sep 2019 08:15:07 -0700 > Opening a terminal emulator in default configuration on localhost, ... Localhost; not hosts. Also, From: peasth...@sh

apache only servers text page

2019-09-29 Thread Dave
Our apache2 is only severing text or code pages instead of html pages. apache did have a "ForceType of text/plain remarking out did not solve the problem. .pl files on the server are also served are code. text/html - is used in all scripts, and it is located in the mime.types we use sublime to

Re: Debian 10 freezes upon shutdown, reboot and logout

2019-09-29 Thread Beco
Some updates on testing I'm doing: $ init 1 also hangs Booting from grub using init 3 gave me a single chance to reboot without hanging, other variables being acpi=off. But somehow I was not able to reproduce the behaviour. Messages appearing on screen when init 3 was running, or in kernel.log:

Re: Authentication for telnet.

2019-09-29 Thread David
On Sun, 29 Sep 2019 at 01:33, wrote: > Opening a terminal emulator in default configuration on localhost, > LXTerminal for example, doesn't require authentication. Can telnet > work similarly? Ie. "telnet localhost" succeeds without login. Ok, the guessing game continues, we're all trying to h

Re: Authentication for telnet.

2019-09-29 Thread Tixy
On Mon, 2019-09-30 at 14:43 +1000, David wrote: [...] > A final puzzle is that I vaguely recall from other > messages that you use something named Oberon. It came up in the discussion of why he breaks threads every time he posts to this list. The X-Mailer header in his emails says 'Oberon Mail' an

Re: Authentication for telnet.

2019-09-29 Thread Reco
On Sun, Sep 29, 2019 at 02:36:02PM -0700, pe...@easthope.ca wrote: > From: Reco > Date: Sat, 28 Sep 2019 19:23:45 +0300 > > I have to ask - what are you trying to achieve? > > An interactive shell session with minimal overhead. (Or maximal > efficiency.) The telnet client in the Oberon subsyste

Re: RStudio in Buster

2019-09-29 Thread deloptes
Mark Fletcher wrote: > If one downloads libssl1.0.2 from the Debian package pool and installs > it, it appears to install OK and RStudio starts working -- but, what > damage / compromise is that likely to have done to the system? Is it OK > to do this? Should one take other steps to prevent libssl

xfce and hybrid sleep: only in menu?

2019-09-29 Thread Andrea Borgia
Hi. I saw that the power menu now has support for hybrid sleep and have verified that it works reliably on my system (tracking "testing"). Therefore I wanted to make this mode the default when closing the lid but I can't seem to find this option in the power settings. What gives? :) Andrea

Re: RStudio in Buster

2019-09-29 Thread Reco
Hi. On Sun, Sep 29, 2019 at 10:34:17PM +0100, Mark Fletcher wrote: > The most recent package they provide is aiming at Stretch -- they don't > seem to have produced a Buster version yet. It says otherwise here [1]: Studio 1.2.5001 - Ubuntu 18/Debian 10 (64-bit) and here [2]: Supported

Re: Authentication for telnet.

2019-09-29 Thread David
On Mon, 30 Sep 2019 at 15:55, Tixy wrote: > On Mon, 2019-09-30 at 14:43 +1000, David wrote: > > A final puzzle is that I vaguely recall from other > > messages that you use something named Oberon. > It came up in the discussion of why he breaks threads every time he > posts to this list. The X-M